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Two government agencies are facing off over the right to regulate the popular online game World of Warcraft.
The drive-by shooting, which left the brigadier and his military driver injured, was the third such attack against senior military officers in 15 days.
As allied forces search for two missing soldiers in Afghanistan a Taliban spokesman said fighters had recovered the bodies of two drowned soldiers.
Eight years of war have left people exhausted, impatient and increasingly unsure that the Taliban can be defeated.
KILLEEN, TEX. -- They started lowering the flags to half-mast here before the Army had even finished counting the dead.
More than 25 international and Afghan troops were wounded Friday in western Afghanistan -- possibly by friendly fire -- during a search operation for two U.S. Army paratroopers who had gone missing, according to the military.
Ever since taking office, President Obama has signaled that the United States wants to improve relations with the powerhouse nations of East Asia, and he'll put his personal imprint on that when he travels to the region for the first time next week.
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN -- When terrorists last week blew up the Mina Bazaar, a market for women and children, they detonated a car bomb so powerful it left more than 100 people dead and 15 missing in a nightmarish scene of scattered limbs, charred corpses and victims trapped alive under mounds of de...
The Pakistani army on Friday entered Makeen, the last of three insurgent strongholds targeted by a major offensive in the northwest, as gunmen wounded a senior army officer and a soldier in the capital, Islamabad.
Traffickers from Myanmar's ethnic minorities use Thailand as their hub for the Pacific region.
The temporary move after an attack last week was a signal of pressure on U.N. operations in the region.
Brendon McCullum smashes 131 as New Zealand beat Pakistan in Abu Dhabi to level their one-day series at 1-1 with one to play.
A South Korean woman is celebrating after passing the written exam for a driving licence - on her 950th attempt.
China hosts an international conference to co-ordinate anti-piracy escorts for cargo vessels in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia.
The U.S. program is struggling to help largely illiterate and often corrupt Afghan forces, documents suggest.
The Reserve Bank of Australia says the country is growing faster than it had expected.
Some 5,000 of the condoms distributed to Olympics athletes at the Beijing Games are to be auctioned off.
A gunman in Japan has killed himself after wounding three people in Yokohama, outside Tokyo, police say.
Japan hosts the leaders of five Asian nations that share the Mekong River amid growing Chinese influence in the region.
The region held by the Wa ethnic group is a piece of unfinished business for Myanmar's military government.
Cambodia recalls its ambassador from Thailand in tit-for-tat dispute over sanctuary offer to former Thai PM Thaksin.
The United States imposes high anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese pipes as trade disputes mar the run-up to a bilateral summit.
KENYA The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said Thursday that post-election violence in Kenya that killed more than 1,000 people was a crime against humanity and pledged to initiate proceedings that could result in top officials facing trial.
BANGKOK -- After a rare trip by high-level U.S. diplomats to Burma, there was little indication from either nation Thursday about how the Obama administration's overture of engagment had been received.
KABUL -- The U.N. mission in Afghanistan is relocating hundreds of staff members, including sending many outside the country, after an attack last week on a U.N. guesthouse in Kabul that killed five members of its international staff.
The new Christmas Island refugee detention center has come to symbolize what many call one of Australia's defining fears: the arrival of boat people from Asia .
China's internet boot camps should not use physical punishment to treat web addicts, the ministry of health says.
A plan to allow the Three Gorges Dam's reservoir to reach its full height is delayed due to lack of water, officials say.
Two of Indonesia's senior law enforcement officials resign over an alleged plot to undermine the anti-corruption agency.
Abdullah Abdullah said that President Hamid Karzai's newly anointed administration would be unable to cope with the problems facing Afghanistan, including security and corruption.
The approach, which has not been proven to work, is directed at people on railroad platforms who jump in front of trains.
MADISON, WIS. -- President Obama marked the anniversary of his election Wednesday by speaking in unusually personal terms with schoolchildren and educators in a politically friendly state, far from the partisan fray in Washington.
GUANGZHOU, CHINA -- The mixed-race son of a brilliant but troubled Kenyan academic and a white American woman writes an emotionally wrenching book about his search for identity and self.
PAKISTAN Pakistani soldiers engaged in fierce street fighting Wednesday as they pushed into a major Taliban base in the insurgents' South Waziristan stronghold, the military said.
A mass public trial has exposed the relationships between gangsters, police officers and sticky-fingered bureaucrats.
BANGKOK, Nov 6 (IPS)- The United States government's diplomatic foray into military-ruled Burma made early inroads into an area sealed off to United Nations envoys in recent yearsâ€"meeting the country's oppressed ethnic minorities.
NEW DELHI, Nov 5 (IPS)- In the lull before the storm that the central government has vowed to unleash on Maoist rebels this month, voices of caution are being heard against precipitating an armed confrontation that could further hurt marginalised and largely indigenous populations in the worst affected central and eastern Indian states.
KATHMANDU, Nov 6 (IPS)- As the new federal republic of Nepal forges ahead with writing a new constitution, activists are demanding that environmental rights be enshrined in this important document.
BEIJING, Nov 6 (IPS)- For China choosing to act on climate change is not simply agreeing to effect changes in the way its robust economy is being run. Chinese leaders have to choose between two equally unattractive optionsâ€"put the brakes on growth to choke off pollution and face an array of scary scenarios, from unemployment swell to social unrest.
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS)- The Barack Obama administration is talking tough to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the need for decisive action on corruption and governance reform, but its main objective is to prevent particularly corrupt and incompetent warlords from getting plum ministries as rewards for helping clinch his fraudulent reelection, IPS has learned.
HANOI, Nov 5 (IPS)- Think of a world where rich nations did not fund what was popular but instead collaborated to solve the developing world's most pressing health needs.
KARACHI, Nov 4 (IPS)- Almost 400 Indian fishermen continue to languish in Pakistani prisons despite having completed their prison terms. Their release has been hampered by tensions in the relations between their country and neighbouring Pakistan.
TOKYO, Nov 3 (IPS)- Following the bloody clashes in July in Urumqi, the capital of the restive Xingjian region in China, activist Rebiya Kadeer found herself in the midst of another controversy, having been accused by the Chinese government of instigating the riots.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 3 (IPS)- Until the Taliban were forced to flee by the military, the militant group's deadly opposition to vaccination had been severely hampering efforts to make Pakistan a polio-free country in the foreseeable future.
LAHORE, Pakistan, Nov 4 (IPS)- Lahore, known to the world as "the city of the live-hearted" has been in the grip of extreme fear since Oct. 15, the day when three suicide attacks took place here simultaneously.
COLOMBO, Nov 4 (IPS)- Sudarma Senevirathana's teenage daughter is at an age when she can already be given the ‘rubella' vaccine, administered free of charge by government health officials at schools.
KABUL, Nov 2 (IPS)- Niamatullah joined the Afghan National Police (ANP) for the same reasons that many Afghan men do.
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